Bush is ...
...waiting for the other shoe to drop.
As I've read, and written, Bush and Co. rigged the Nov. 5, 2000 election
because Iraq tried to cut an oil-for-food deal with a French bank.
Saddam tried to sell oil to that bank and he demanded payment in
euros, rather than dollars. (One of the reasons that the USD is
so strong is that countries accept it in payment for oil, then use it
to buy American bonds. There's a kind of
petrodollar recycling
going on, and has been for a few decades.)
If other OPEC countries decided to do the same thing, they would
dump their USD on the currency markets and
the value of the
USD, vis-a-vis the euro, would plummet. You might just have
a bona-fide Depression in America.
So BushCo stole the first election and rigged the 2004 one. (You can
guess that I think they let 9/11 happen on purpose, so they could
link Saddam and terror in the public's mind.)
If Bush leaves Iraq, and the military pulls out, leaving the country
in disarray, other Arab (Islamic) countries will sell their oil for euros,
and Bush will have to invade again.
In short, he lives in fear that he will be forced to start another
unpopular war in an unstable region. He is waiting for the other
shoe to drop in the financial markets...which is where Saddam fired
the first shot.